BRAD Cooper, CEO
Brad Cooper is the CEO of Story Radius and has spent more than 30 years as a storyteller.
Brad is a Top 1% writer on Coverfly, with screenplays in the Top 20 of all time on Coverfly’s The Red List, along with more than 70 screenplay awards, including Best Screenplay.
His scripts have placed across The Page Awards, Outstanding Screenplays, Scriptation Showcase, WeScreenplay, Vail Film Festival, and dozens of top screenwriting competitions.
He has produced, directed, and written screenplays for shows with stars such as Candace Cameron Bure and Mario Lopez. His stories have been seen by millions of people around the world. His projects include shoots in five continents across more than a dozen different countries—from the UK to Uganda, and from Seattle to the Andes Mountains in Peru.
Brad has owned companies and has been an executive in technology and entertainment at companies including Apple, Macromedia/Adobe, Xerox, and Quantum. He also owns a tech company, Human Radius, with brands that include OnDemand.TV.
His media technology company, LivePlanet, was sold to Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who later went on to produce Project Greenlight under this shingle.
His first internship out of college was at Orion Pictures, and he later continued working on that library as an executive at MGM Studios.
Brad is also a technology inventor, with patent applications that have since been shared with the world and converted to open technology.
As a humanitarian, he has been an executive at World Vision and Free Wheelchair Mission, helping these organizations use story-telling and digital technologies to generate more than $250 million in long-term funds helping children, communities, and people with disabilities.
Brad graduated with a Bachelor’s of Commerce from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. He's a former physics major and still an avid science and tech geek and lover of every new tech gadget.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY BOARD
Gerald B. Cleaver, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics, Baylor University | Advisory Board Member, Story Radius
Gerald B. Cleaver is a leading theoretical physicist and Professor of Physics at Baylor University, where he directs the Early Universe Cosmology and String Theory (EUCOS) division within the Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics, and Engineering Research (CASPER).
He earned his Ph.D. from Caltech in 1993 under the mentorship of John H. Schwarz—one of the founders of string theory—and has spent over 25 years advancing the frontiers of physics while mentoring the next generation of scientists. To date, he has guided 15 Ph.D. and M.S. students to graduation and currently supervises six Ph.D. candidates.
Cleaver’s expertise includes:
Theoretical models of the early universe, including string theory and loop quantum gravity
The mysteries of dark energy and dark matter
Wormholes and warped spacetime geometries
An accomplished communicator and problem solver, Cleaver has authored over 120 peer-reviewed scientific papers and conference presentations. He is also co-author of a textbook on elementary particle physics and has contributed to six other books. Beyond academia, he serves as editor-in-chief of two physics journals, sits on multiple editorial boards, and frequently reviews work across both scientific and theological publications.
His thought leadership spans science, technology, and faith. He is a Fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation and the Canadian Scientific & Christian Affiliation, and has received several project grants from the John Templeton Foundation.
Cleaver is also actively engaged in innovation, serving on advisory boards for two tech startups. Outside the lab, he enjoys exploring the depths of both the ocean and the cosmos—through SCUBA diving, sailing, Taekwondo, and writing about the philosophical implications of multiverse theories.
Cleaver says of what sparked his interest in science, “My interest in cosmology was first inspired by Star Trek (the original series) and its fictional Enterprise crew exploring ‘strange new worlds’ followed by watching launches of the much less advanced, but real-life, Apollo missions and the astronaut crews.” He continued, “I have remained a huge Star Trek fan and NASA supporter for nearly 60 years.”